I found your other post (in reply to mine) pretty interesting, despite my disagreement. But this one, I dunno... what color is the sky for you? You seem to argue within a theoretical model that is very obviously ad odds with reality, since wherever you look you find incumbent businesses or business groups who prevent competition from arising. And the idea that only governments or government-like organizations threaten violence is beyond ridiculous. You should take a closer look at the behavior of business in history and right now; current examples are most easily found in areas of the work where governments are not strong enough to prevent people and organizations with power from acting like they please.
Hayek et al. do not have a monopoly on the term. Just because they define "free market" in a certain way does not mean that opposing definitions or view points are a priori invalid. It's a fact that I will be always at a disadvantage compared to corporations and industry groups who employ whole organizations whose sole purpose is to spin and lie until the cows come home (that is, marketing and lobbying experts). I do not have the time nor the inclination to fully research every item I buy or eat.
Stop bringing up "pure free markets" in discussions about capitalism, really. Pure free markets have properties that will never exist in reality, such as equally complete and correct information for all players.
But it wasn't that the plaintiff sued for that amount right away. I have read (but can't back up with a link right now) that he reason the jury decided in that way was annoyance with McDonald's lawyer. According to the article I read, the lawyer had insinuated that the plaintiff's request to pay for her skin crafts was unreasonable, given that, in his opinion, nobody would ever see the groin of an 81 year old woman. I certainly understand the jury getting angry over that.
Actually there _is nice hardware with Linux preinstalled, but not easy to find, I grant you that. But availability way not the point, vendor support was.
Wow you are quick, insulting people. I installed it without problems on an hp nc 6400 with ATI Radeon X1300. Actually I did so with every Ubuntu release on different models, all with ATi card (my company gives me a new laptop quite often)
Every time someone reports Linux installation trouble there is a new idiot coming up with this. So here it is again: 1. Buy a laptop with some Linux distro preinstalled and there won't be problems, same as with Windows 2. If you install stock Windows (not a recovery disc) to a laptop, you can easily run into the same problems
I wish people who are pro marijuana would remember one simple maxim: "No matter how fair you think it is, what people think of what you do will be based on how you appear and act."
I aften see these pro-marijuana people trying to get signatures, and that all seem to wear dirty clothes and smell "poignant".
You really never thought about the possibility that you just don't pigeonhole people as pro-marijuana if they don't fit your prejudice? I'm sorry, but people all the way up to the Fortune 500 board rooms smoke marijuana (and do other drugs).
Then follows Russia, Belarus, Dominica, Iran, etc. until finally we come to the first Central European country, albeit until recently under soviet rule,
#35 Poland: 210 per 100,000 people
Then we have Uzbekistan, Israel, Bahrain, and others, until we come to the first Western European country. That is, a country which, similar to the US, has no war at its border and lives in prosperity. Just that they were a fascist state until 1975:
#61 Spain: 144 per 100,000 people
Then follows China, Bahrain, etc. USA's comparable neighbor incarcerates a sixth of the USA's number:
#75 Canada: 116 per 100,000 people
Now we enter a bracket that includes many Western European countries, and Saudi Arabia, until:
#93 Germany: 96 per 100,000 people #108 Sweden: 75 per 100,000 people #119 Norway: 64 per 100,000 people
For a global company the physical location of a meeting will often just not matter. I work in such a beast too, and many meetings consist of one guy from Australia, one from Shanghai, one from Paris, one from Berlin, one from Sao Paulo, and two from US. So Paris is just as fine for the company as NY.
I'm no US citizen, but I think the US constitution lists or defines certain inalienable rights that are intrinsic to any human being (I am sure that the constitution of my own country does). For example, Amendment V,
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except...
. "No person", not "no citizen".
If you are really right, then I'd suggest the US fix that clear error.
Chiefly, I'm thinking of Wii Bowling, where you press a button to "initiate" the swing, which then proceeds at its own rate irrelevant of your own arm speed and/or technique.
Huh? That's not true at all. You can control the speed, direction, and spin of the on-screen ball by the way you swing. Just the point of release seems to be automatic, IIRC. Maybe you found the game exceptionally hard because you didn't figure that out;)
Dude, this software was a gift to you. Use it if you have a need for it, or leave it if you don't, but stop insulting the givers. It's not optimal that some chipsets are not supported, but only the manufacturers can change that (by releasing specifications or drivers), so go complain to them. Meanwhile, behave rationally and research your hardware before buying, thus supporting those vendors that cater to you. It's not as if the choice was limited: as mentioned, Intel and Atheros (whose chipsets are in many good brand cards, like D-Link) work just dandy.
Slashdot Mirror
s/areas of the work/areas of the world. Sorry.
I found your other post (in reply to mine) pretty interesting, despite my disagreement. But this one, I dunno ... what color is the sky for you? You seem to argue within a theoretical model that is very obviously ad odds with reality, since wherever you look you find incumbent businesses or business groups who prevent competition from arising. And the idea that only governments or government-like organizations threaten violence is beyond ridiculous. You should take a closer look at the behavior of business in history and right now; current examples are most easily found in areas of the work where governments are not strong enough to prevent people and organizations with power from acting like they please.
Hayek et al. do not have a monopoly on the term. Just because they define "free market" in a certain way does not mean that opposing definitions or view points are a priori invalid. It's a fact that I will be always at a disadvantage compared to corporations and industry groups who employ whole organizations whose sole purpose is to spin and lie until the cows come home (that is, marketing and lobbying experts). I do not have the time nor the inclination to fully research every item I buy or eat.
A pure free-market capitalist system
Stop bringing up "pure free markets" in discussions about capitalism, really. Pure free markets have properties that will never exist in reality, such as equally complete and correct information for all players.
But it wasn't that the plaintiff sued for that amount right away. I have read (but can't back up with a link right now) that he reason the jury decided in that way was annoyance with McDonald's lawyer. According to the article I read, the lawyer had insinuated that the plaintiff's request to pay for her skin crafts was unreasonable, given that, in his opinion, nobody would ever see the groin of an 81 year old woman. I certainly understand the jury getting angry over that.
Actually there _is nice hardware with Linux preinstalled, but not easy to find, I grant you that. But availability way not the point, vendor support was.
Yeah, that's unfortunate and all, I realize that in some cases one has no choice. But that doesn't change the fact that the parent post was idiotic.
And 8.04 (Hardy) is just 2 months away, too :)
Did you try the Alternate installer disc? Often works better with problematic hardware due to the text-based install.
Wow you are quick, insulting people. I installed it without problems on an hp nc 6400 with ATI Radeon X1300. Actually I did so with every Ubuntu release on different models, all with ATi card (my company gives me a new laptop quite often)
Every time someone reports Linux installation trouble there is a new idiot coming up with this. So here it is again:
1. Buy a laptop with some Linux distro preinstalled and there won't be problems, same as with Windows
2. If you install stock Windows (not a recovery disc) to a laptop, you can easily run into the same problems
Do a Google search for 1and1.com sucks. Most 5,330 results are not happy with 1and1.com and I also think they suck.
I don't car either way, but Google has 11,000 hits for 1and1.com rocks. Just to show that your metric is pretty useless.
Linux Desktop environment use bonobo implementing some of its services to achieve reusability and that too is not universal. (Gnome uses it).
No, Bonobo failed and is being phased out: http://live.gnome.org/Bonobo
I wish people who are pro marijuana would remember one simple maxim:
...
"No matter how fair you think it is, what people think of what you do will be based on how you appear and act."
I aften see these pro-marijuana people trying to get signatures, and that all seem to wear dirty clothes and smell "poignant".
You really never thought about the possibility that you just don't pigeonhole people as pro-marijuana if they don't fit your prejudice? I'm sorry, but people all the way up to the Fortune 500 board rooms smoke marijuana (and do other drugs).
There's no other way
people in jail needs to be a per capita number
:)
OK, per capita then:
#1 is United States with 715 per 100,000 people.
Then follows Russia, Belarus, Dominica, Iran, etc. until finally we come to the first Central European country, albeit until recently under soviet rule,
#35 Poland: 210 per 100,000 people
Then we have Uzbekistan, Israel, Bahrain, and others, until we come to the first Western European country. That is, a country which, similar to the US, has no war at its border and lives in prosperity. Just that they were a fascist state until 1975:
#61 Spain: 144 per 100,000 people
Then follows China, Bahrain, etc. USA's comparable neighbor incarcerates a sixth of the USA's number:
#75 Canada: 116 per 100,000 people
Now we enter a bracket that includes many Western European countries, and Saudi Arabia, until:
#93 Germany: 96 per 100,000 people
#108 Sweden: 75 per 100,000 people
#119 Norway: 64 per 100,000 people
And so on. Don't make me unfriend you again
For a global company the physical location of a meeting will often just not matter. I work in such a beast too, and many meetings consist of one guy from Australia, one from Shanghai, one from Paris, one from Berlin, one from Sao Paulo, and two from US. So Paris is just as fine for the company as NY.
If you are really right, then I'd suggest the US fix that clear error.
I mean people are getting sentenced to death for drinking alcohol [...] Oh wait that's not us thats Iran and Afghanistan.
Right, in your country people are thrown into jail for smoking pot. You can relax.
Ok, if we are talking only about the swing animation, I agree.
Chiefly, I'm thinking of Wii Bowling, where you press a button to "initiate" the swing, which then proceeds at its own rate irrelevant of your own arm speed and/or technique.
;)
Huh? That's not true at all. You can control the speed, direction, and spin of the on-screen ball by the way you swing. Just the point of release seems to be automatic, IIRC. Maybe you found the game exceptionally hard because you didn't figure that out
If the Wii Remote relied on the IR camera as the primary sensor, it would be useless every time line of sight to the sensor bar was lost.
Do you have a Wii? Because that's exactly what it does. The motion sensing of course works, but pointing does not.
A gift? Oh please.
You think these millions of lines of code appeared from thin air? Whatever, bye, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Dude, this software was a gift to you. Use it if you have a need for it, or leave it if you don't, but stop insulting the givers. It's not optimal that some chipsets are not supported, but only the manufacturers can change that (by releasing specifications or drivers), so go complain to them. Meanwhile, behave rationally and research your hardware before buying, thus supporting those vendors that cater to you. It's not as if the choice was limited: as mentioned, Intel and Atheros (whose chipsets are in many good brand cards, like D-Link) work just dandy.
Search for "annoyances" in Amazon books and you will see :)
The intended audience is probably corporate Windows admins, helpdesk people and the like at least as much as unskilled home users.